The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
More Clement Attlee Quotes
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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Can’t publish. Don’t rhyme, don’t scan.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.
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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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The press lives on disaster.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women’s beds in a week.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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